Development Mechanism Of Children And Adulti's False Memory

The aim of this article is that the Deese-Roediger-McDemrott (DRM)list-leanring paradigm porvides a tractable method to reliably induce and study false memory effect in the laboratory for different old people in the different list type. In Part 1, current directions of false memory of children and adults were described respectively. In this part, current directions of children and adults' false memory have been shown from semantic and phonological list.In part 2, several important theoretical implications described to illustrate the underlying mechanism of a false memory effect were reviewed respectively. Some of the theories are mainly fuzzy-trace theory, activation-monitoring theory, associative-activation theory.Furthermore, children and adults' developmental trends in false memory were investigated in three serial experiments. Experiment 1 created a set of child-generated lists based on the free associations by two age groups (children of 8 years old and 11 years old) to critical items. The results indicated that adult words generated and children words generated overlapping hardly, the lower frequency words or words not existed in adults' list were the most frequently generated words in children list. Compared with adults, children more tend to associate with specific situations words, but adults tend to associate with abstract words. And in experiment 2, children of 8 years old and 11 years old study age-appropriate semantic list, adults study age-appropriate semantic list, and all people study phonological list and graphic list (14 items). The results indicate that youngest children' level of false memory form semantic list was no significant difference with adult' level of false memory, and age declines in false memory of graphic list. We can see that a shift took place in participants' semantic structure, age increase in false memory of phonological list. We changed the length of list in experiment 3, and this aim was to investigate that how list length influence the trends of false memory of three list type form three age groups. Results showed the false memory of the long list was significant difference with that of short list. Findings are discussed in terms of FTT, age increases can be shrunk by enhancing their ability to establish meaning relations among target events. Helping children connect meaning across targets increases false memory in younger children, narrowing the age difference between younger and older children and sometimes eliminating it.